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Jenifer McKim ’88

Jenifer McKim ’88, an investigative reporter at the Orange County Register, was selected as one of 30 journalists to be a 2008 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study at the university. McKim, an English major at Wesleyan, will study the problem of child prostitution and the related issues of gender, family, and sexuality that put young women at risk.
Jenifer McKim ’88, an investigative reporter at the Orange County Register, was selected as one of 30 journalists to be a 2008 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study at the university. McKim, an English major at Wesleyan, will study the problem of child prostitution and the related issues of gender, family, and sexuality that put young women at risk.